If you’ve watched a handful of Westerns and/or a decent number of movies produced in Italy before, there’s a good chance you’ve run into an Ennio Morricone score or two in your time. As far as ...

From idiosyncratic Italian pop to experimental funk and moments from his classic westerns, here are some of the maestro’s most striking moments Trying to sum up the maestro’s 66-year career into ten ...

This was the most popular of the maestro’s Western scores, for the last of Clint Eastwood’s “Man with No Name” trilogy. With an indelible, coyote-inspired main theme and now-famous “Ecstasy of Gold” ...

Ennio Morricone wasn’t just the most important film composer of the 20th century, he was also the busiest. Morricone, who died Monday in Rome at age 91, is best known for his early work with Italian ...

Born in 1929, the masterful composer Ennio Morricone, who died this week at the age of 91, made his entrance into the world just after the advent of synchronized cinematic sound. The Jazz Singer had ...

Simply sign up to the Film myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. When Ennio Morricone died at 91 in 2020, cinema lost one of its greatest craftsmen. For more than half a century, his name ...

Hearing the strains of music as the opening credits roll while watching The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is one of my fondest memories of Ennio Morricone. Something about the music is so comforting. Of ...